Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“You can’t explain love” he said out loud. “That’s how it gets ruined.” — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. — Simon Van Booy Christmas Copy Share Image
“...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.” — Simon Van Booy Knowledge Copy Share Image
Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here. — Simon Van Booy Alive Copy Share Image
“His father was an attorney in Paris. He met Sebastien’s mother on a train to Amsterdam. There were no other seats. They… — Simon Van Booy Encounters Copy Share Image
I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson. — Simon Van Booy Abraham Copy Share Image
Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he had been waiting all along for someone to knock him down and allow him to drop the weight he’d so… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years… — Simon Van Booy Depression Copy Share Image
“Rain says everything we cannot say to one another. t is an ancient sound that willed all life into being, but fell… — Simon Van Booy Life Copy Share Image
When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“We had spent only a few weeks together, five years ago, but when you finally meet the person who in daydreams you… — Simon Van Booy Daydreams Copy Share Image
Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to… — Simon Van Booy Children Copy Share Image
“When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for… — Simon Van Booy Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Maybe happiness is just finding the right people at the right time." "But how do you find them?" ... "But say you… — Simon Van Booy Happiness Copy Share Image
Some studies show that we're physically attracted, like animal attraction, to people that have a different immune system to us. So even… — Simon Van Booy Animal Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and… — Simon Van Booy Beautiful Copy Share Image
For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home. — Simon Van Booy Cities Copy Share Image
“I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from… — Simon Van Booy Acceptance Copy Share Image
I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory,… — Simon Van Booy Can't change Copy Share Image
But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only… — Simon Van Booy Beauty Copy Share Image
Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained… — Simon Van Booy Adults Copy Share Image
I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“In that moment of recognition he is not consumed by a rushing sensation of love-quite simply a door opens to a room… — Simon Van Booy Love Copy Share Image
“Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he… — Simon Van Booy Change Copy Share Image
Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though… — Simon Van Booy Body Copy Share Image
It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt. — Simon Van Booy Children Copy Share Image
Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same… — Simon Van Booy Being loved Copy Share Image
To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry… — Simon Van Booy Love Copy Share Image
“When he smiles, they mostly look away. But Martin likes to think they carry his smile for a few blocks – that… — Simon Van Booy Gestures Copy Share Image
I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life. — Simon Van Booy Best thing Copy Share Image
